plein
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#468
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
plein is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui contient tout ce qu’il est capable de contenir ; il est opposé à vide. Pronounced \plɛ̃\. It ranks #468 in French word frequency. Often confused with pli and plis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plein is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #468 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for plein, with forms such as "lpein", "pelin", and "pleinn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pli", "plis", "plie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plein, spelled P-L-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui contient tout ce qu’il est capable de contenir ; il est opposé à vide.
- 2Qui contient une grande quantité.
- 3Qualifie une femelle en gestation.
- 4Abondant, rempli.
- 5Qui est gras, replet, rebondi.
- 6Entier, complet.
- 7Entier, complet, absolu.
- 8Se construit souvent avec la préposition en et sert à former différentes locutions adverbiales de lieu et de temps, qui signifient « au milieu de », mais qui ne servent véritablement qu’à donner plus de force et d’expression à ce qu’on dit.
- 9Avec les prépositions à et de, il sert à former plusieurs locutions adverbiales qui marquent l’intensité, l’abondance, le haut degré de la chose dont il s’agit.
- 10Ivre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpein,pelin,pleinn,pleni,plien,pllein,pplein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "plein"
Frequency rank: #468 in French
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